Chapter 372 They must pay the due price for their mistakes!

His hands were tied behind him, and Colonel Henry, who knelt on the ground, had made the hot sun in the south of early summer a little drowsy at this moment. However, the pain in the wound on his body involved his nerves, as well as the burning throat and the bloody lips made him feel as if he were Live in hell.

At this time, there was a noise in Henry's ears. He tried to raise his head and opened his dizzy eyes. He saw a group of people standing and exclaiming not far ahead, as if someone was still arguing about something. He also heard the voice of the British envoy Macartney.

"Am I dreaming? Are they here to save us? Colonel Henry tried his best to squeeze his dry lips and opened his eyes wide. Finally, he saw, yes, not only Ambassador Macartney, but also an acquaintance, Viscount Edmund, a member of the Supervisory Committee of the East India Company, and many familiar Western faces.

Seeing them finally aroused Colonel Henry's desire to survive. Colonel Henry struggled to stand up, and hissed in his hoarse voice: "Help me, Your Excellency the Ambassador, Mr. Member, please help us, help us..."

Coloctor Henry's move was soon rewarded. A heavy and hard buttstock made close contact with his face, which made him directly unconscious and rolled on the ground that made the sun dry and hot.

"You, you can't treat a British [***] official like this. You are committing a crime! My God, I want to accuse you, these barbaric and vulgar Orientals. Viscount Edmund, a member of the Supervision Committee of the East India Company, waved his arm angrily and shouted at the guards who were guarding on their kneeling on the ground as if they had lost their anger.

Although Macartney, the envoy of the British Empire, was angry in his heart, the cold and blood-eating eyes of the soldiers who watched the British prisoners of war who were kneeling on the ground quickly calmed him down and tried his best to stop the Viscount Edmund who wanted to rush forward.

"God, what's going on? Are you abusing prisoners of war like this?" A Western colonial official shouted angrily. Although he did not want to say a good word for the British, now, when he saw that people of the same skin were treated by those Chinese with such cruel means, he felt a sense of sadness in his heart. Who knew that he would kneel on the ground and suffer from this in the future. Will it be the soldiers of their own country who are tortured?

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"Please shut up! From the moment they fled the prisoner-of-war camp, they had been disqualified from the treatment of prisoners of war. Slowly passed the crowd and walked to the group of Western colonial officials invited by him. Liang Pengfei's gloomy and cold eyes swept over the Westerners in front of him. The cold eyes that were enough to freeze the soul made the originally noisy scene silent in an instant.

"Do you want to know why I treat them like this? Gentlemen, please ask my adjutant to introduce to you what these idiots who are kneeling here at this moment have done. Liang Pengfei bent the corners of his mouth slightly and nodded to Sun Shijie, who was standing beside him.

The process of the matter is actually quite simple. Ten thousand British prisoners of war and thousands of Indian prisoners of war are all detained in several prisoner of war camps about five miles away from the Kowloon Bay Pier in Hong Kong. Every day, they are escorted by fully armed troops along the road to the dock and build them. With various facilities, they can get their food according to the schedule of their work every day.

These people, even those army officers and low-level naval officers, from Colonel Henry to private soldiers, must be exhausted every day in exchange for food to fill their stomachs. There is no entertainment, no women, and no right to instruct colonial migrant workers to serve themselves, which makes Henry The colonel and other army officers were very dissatisfied.

As for those British naval captains and those senior officers, they have all been transferred to Crab King Island by Liang Pengfei, because according to the terms of surrender, those naval officers will become naval instructors of the military academy set up by Liang Pengfei. Of course, if they don't want to, they will stay with those armies. The officers worked hard together.

Of course, those proud British naval officers did not want to do such a vulgar job, so they were all willing to go to King Crab Island as instructors, and Liang Pengfei was not afraid that they would steal and play tricks. After all, his college had gathered the naval elites of Spain and the Netherlands, plus an English. The competition between them will be more fierce. Liang Pengfei believes that under his own means, those arrogant British people must not want the students they teach to lose to the students who are both excellent national naval officers under the defeated generals of the Royal Navy of the British Empire.

However, British army officers could not enjoy the treatment of their naval compatriots. In addition, these British prisoners of war, before they became soldiers, almost did not have a good bird, including the sailors of the British navy.

However, after their dissatisfaction was expressed, it was exchanged for a heavy and fierce buttstock, and a much smaller share of rations than others, which made these Britons clearly realize that it was useless to protest like this, but it was excellent for them to let them face the cement all day long. The proud emperor [***] is the greatest insult.

Therefore, under the institigation and connection of Colonel Henry, after two months of observation, it has been confirmed that the British [***] officials who confirmed that the Liang army was not very strict in guarding the prisoner-of-war camp decided to plan a riot, or a prison escape plan.

Because, if you take the road from the prisoner of war camp to the dock, you need to go around a large arc, and you have to pass through a heavily guarded barracks in the middle of the road. However, if you take a straight line and cross the two low hills, the straight distance is actually only about three miles.

And those Orientals have cleaned up the mines that blocked the harbor after the British surrender. Merchant ships, transport ships and warships moored there every day on the dock. If they can be captured, they will definitely be able to rush out of the bay.

As for rushing out of the bay, of course, they have many choices, such as dry pirates, either find a way to cross the Strait of Malacca and return to the West, or simply cross the Southern Ocean and go directly to Australia or New Zealand, which is also a British colony.

However, considering that there are not many ships moored in the dock, and the more people know about things, the greater the chance of being discovered by those Chinese, they decided that they would only instigate 2,500 prisoners of war in their prisoner-of-war camp to escape with them. .

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On the night of the grand wedding of Liang Pengfei and the eldest princess of Spain in St. Paul's Cathedral in Macao, Liang Pengfei's soldiers also got a holiday. Except for a small number of sentries, most of the guards went to the camp stuck on the road to gather together. They quietly left the room, and then managed to push down a fence in the south of the prisoner-of-war camp. More than 2,000 prisoners of war intended to quietly cross the two low hills and reach the dock directly. However, when they left the range of the camp, the land under their feet suddenly exploded.

Some of the British prisoners of war who thought the escape plan were found fled back to the prisoner-of-war camp, but there were still many outlaws running wild in the mountains at the instigatement of Colonel Henry and others.

As a result, on this road, the explosions came one after another, and some prisoners of war even saw the fire from the feet of their comrades-in-arms in front of them tear the lower limbs of the comrade-in-arms to pieces.

This kind of casualties soon made them lose the courage and determination to escape through the three-mile-long road. At this time, when the Chinese soldiers who had already woken up began to surround them from all sides, the prisoners of war only dared to shrink into a ball, and they didn't even have the courage to take steps.

However, the Chinese soldiers did not take immediate action, but just ordered them to return to the prisoner of war camp. When they retreated tremblingly, they were greeted by the rough hemp ropes. Colonel Henry and other lucky ones who were not killed by mines did not even have a chance to resist, but They lost the opportunity to enter the prisoner-of-war camp and were directly escorted to the open ground in front of the dock, kneeling from the early morning until now.

Of course, the new weapon of landmines was deliberately skipped by Sun Shijie, just to say that the conspiracy of these guys was discovered in time. After listening to this, he saw Liang Pengfei's gloomy face, and Macartney's heart reached his throat.

"Dear Führer, please forgive these unlucky guys. I don't think they mean to offend your dignity, but everyone is eager for freedom. Please believe me, after this experience, they will not and dare not make such a mistake again. Macartney walked to Liang Pengfei and humbly lowered his arrogant head.

"You mean, I should forgive these soldiers who intended to kill me and escape from prison?" Liang Pengfei stared at Macartney for a long time, and suddenly laughed and said lightly. I'm sorry, dear ambassador, I can't accept your request. They must pay the due price for their sins. The words were filled with cold murderous intentions and a strong smell of blood between the lines, which made everyone present in shock.

(to be continued)